Jono's Travel Blog

16/12/2010

It was an early start to the day with Edwin and I hiring out a scooter to get to Canyon de Sumidero. After a spectacular ride down from San Cristobel we arrived in Tuxtla where the climate was more to my liking.

We debated whether or not we should do the 2 hour boat tour through the canyon as it was quite expensive. We opted to do it in the end although it was incredibly touristy.

It was an amazing tour with cliff walls towing 1km above and a crazy amount of wildlife like crocs, vultures, iguanas and more crocs, the pictures below hardly give justice to the crazy height of the canyon it really was worth the money in the end. There were some crazy rock formations and unusually growing vegetation with even a cliff face covered in a thick growing moss that resembles a Christmas tree.

After the boat tour we got lunch at a local place offering (again and only) tacos and we headed back on the low powered scooter through the winding roads to reach the lookout points of the canyon.

These again were very impressive if not surreal and it was good fun to drive on the winding roads to get up and down.

Sunset was approaching and we needed to head back to San Cristobel ASAP because as ive mentioned before the temperature drops dramatically when the sun goes down.

The scooter that we hired was severly underpowered especially with the two of us on it and it did take us a very long time to climb the mountain, with a max speed of 40km/h.

We did unfortunately get caught in the cold, and I didn’t have a sweater.

I was freezing my tits off as I drove the scooter counting down the kilometers so we could return the scooter at 6… but we were 45 minutes late.

Frozen, I quickly warmed up the leftovers from yesterday and downed some tea.

We headed out later to another hostel where Edwin had to catch up with his friend from Holland, but like a lot of hostels guests were not allowed. We then headed back to our guesthouse where I struggled and failed at making a fire and sank back a few beers.